Opinion

Rouleau was unsparing in his criticism of Ford and his government, both for their unwillingness to show up during the convoy itself and their refusal to show up and testify at his inquiry last fall.

When she was a lobbyist, Danielle Smith tried — and failed — to get the UCP to give oil companies $20 billion to clean up their own messes. Now that she's premier, it's a whole new ballgame, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Under Bill C-262, Canadian oil and gas companies could be sued for failing to put in place adequate policies for fighting climate change, writes Shawn Katz, communications officer for Above Ground.

The world is grappling with a catastrophic education crisis fuelled by chronic underfunding. A crisis that is costing children. A crisis on which Canada has an obligation to act, write Nhial Deng and Lindsay Glassco.

With the current accounting method, there is no evidence the proposed emission ceiling for oil and gas companies will lead to a decrease in greenhouse gas pollution caused by this industry, writes Hugo Cordeau, a PhD candidate in economics at the University of Toronto.

Yves Engler's myth-busting research about the Canadian military should be a wake-up call in the struggle to avoid nuclear and climate catastrophe, writes Robert Hackett.

Nuclear energy is greener than renewables and safer than fossil fuels. But people seldom make decisions based on facts, writes freelance science journalist Tyler J. Kelley.

This silliness around ‘15-minute cities’ will die down in due course, writes columnist Max Fawcett. Still, it speaks to a larger problem that won’t go away any time soon.

Simply put, the provinces haven’t been doing their share of the heavy lifting — even though health care is their responsibility.

Alicia Richins is a sustainability and social impact consultant based in Toronto, and a fierce advocate of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, or SDGs.

Rachel Notley's NDP is suddenly trailing the United Conservative Party — and the provincial election is just a few months away. Can she turn things around before it's too late?

Despite its vast environmental, economic and social significance, the ocean continues to be largely taken for granted.

The Trudeau Liberals are at their lowest ebb since winning the 2015 election. If they want to win the next one, they'll have to stop making mistakes — and start telling their own story better.

Coal mining may be on hold in Alberta, but clear-cut logging will increase in a region where the downstream agriculture industry can ill afford to damage its watershed.

In pausing the expansion of MAID, the government has taken a baby step in the right direction, but it still does not seem to get it: too much time is spent considering who should die, rather than how to help people live.